THE CHINESE IN SINGAPORE, 
290 
The numbers in each of the tribes mentioned in the preceding 
paper may be estimated as follows: 
Hokien (including Ang 
Chun people.) 
Shopkeepers, such as those 
who sell rice and other ar¬ 
ticles by retail 
Id. sellers of cloth by retail. 
Id. sellers of crockery 
Gambier and Pcpperdealers 
Petty traders. 
Sago manufacturers .. 
Venders in thc : public market 
Boatmen . 
Watermen 
Porters 
Fishermen . 
Lime Burners.. 
Coolies employed in assisting 
masons 
Masons 
Itenerant venders 
Agriculturists .. 
Revenue peons and arrack 
and chandu preparers .. 
Boatmen employed in bring¬ 
ing earth & sand for build¬ 
ing and other business of 
the kind 
Unemployed .. 
Tk Chu. 
Shopkeepers, such as those 
who sell rice and other ar¬ 
ticles by retail. Id. sell¬ 
ers of cloth by retail. 
Gambierand Pepper dealers 
Id. planters .. 
Venders in the public mar¬ 
kets^ .. .. .. . * 
Boatmen 
Fishermen . 
Coolies employed in assisting 
masons 
Itenerant venders 
Agriculturists.. 
Unemployed .. 
Stone cutters <fcc . 
Shopkeepers in the country . 
Seamen employed in Sam¬ 
pan Pukats . . 
Charcoal Burners . 
Barbers 
Malacca Chinese (descen¬ 
dants of Hokien immigrants) 
Merchants and shopkeepers 
and their people .. .. 
300 
1,400 
Cash keepers and others em¬ 
200 
ployed by Europeans.. 
100 
250 
Householders employed vari¬ 
100 
ously, 
300 
750 
Petty traders, 
200 
500 
Agriculturists,. 
100 
300 
——- 
700 
Macao. 
1,000 
250 
800 
Shopkeepers such as those 
200 
who sell riee and other ar¬ 
100 
etes by retail. Ib. sellers 
of cloth by retail, .. 
350 
700 
Employed by Europeans and 
100 
Chinese as house servants, 
100 
coolies, .. * • *» 
500 
2,000 
Gambierand pepper planters. 
400 
Tailors and Shoemakers, 
400 
70 
Ship and boat builders, 
400 
Cabinetmakers & Carpenters 
1,000 
House Carpenters, .. 
300 
Wood cutters and sawyers,.. 
1,000 
230 
Bakers,. 
200 
250 
Lime Burners, 
250 
—— 
Coolies employed in assisting 
500 
9,000 
masons, .. 
Barbers, 
200 
Brick makers .. 
500 
Keh. 
6,000 
i .900 
400 
200 
Tailors and shoemakers . *. 
10,000 
Makers of wooden boxes 
300 
Blacksmiths 
500 
300 
Goldsmiths 
100 
300 
Barbers .. .. .. 
100 
600 
Sawyers and wood cutters .. 
800 
Housebuilders.. .. ... 
1,000 
100 
300 
2,000 
600 
Petty traders .. .. .. 
Id. in the country 
Persons employed in miscel¬ 
300 
300 
200 
laneous work.. 
150 
2,000 
Hailam. 
4,000 
360 
Shop servants, 
100 
140 
Servants employed in the 
600 
50 
country,. 
19,000 
700 
